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[Panando]

[Mr Space Cat]

Ha, karma.

[escondida]

Polonius! No! (Oh, wait, no, that was a fish*monger* and he was killed with a sword, not an axe).

[ZachUSAman]

lets put a smile on that face... or better yet, just a giant gaping hole

[PDF urist master]

did your fisherdwarf go berserk?

or better yet, did your axe lord go berserk?

[FlamingTP]

now I know how he got those scars.

[Panando]

The story behind this gratuitous but gratefully appreciated display of violence:

I abandoned a fort and started a new one next to it. In the second immigration wave a Fisherdwarf stepped onto the map and immediately went berserk, he chased around a hapless craftdwarf until my Axelord caught up, chopped off a foot, knocked him down, and stuffed her axe into his screaming maw. She then proceeded to gut him (yes, really) and he died of his injuries.

[puke]

Nice, sounds like an interaction with a wandering migration wave from your abandoned fortress! 

I've seen these in adventure mode, but have never run into them in fortress mode.

[EvilBob22]

Yep! I've had migrants from abandoned forts before, although they haven't gone berserk on me.  From what I hear, their mood is unchanged from when you abandoned.  So if your fort was about to collapse from a tantrum spiral, the migrants from that fort will still be in a very bad mood when they arrive in the new fort.

[Kreydurst]

From what I hear, their mood is unchanged from when you abandoned.

Quite so, ever had a 30 migration wave with 2/3rds of it being berserking/tantruming dwarves? It creates some !FUN! Science.

[EvilBob22]

I think the difference for me is that either I've abandoned from lag or else I've stuck it out to the last man (Dwarf).  In the first case, the migrants are generally happy, and in the second case there are no migrants...

[Panando]

Yep! I've had migrants from abandoned forts before, although they haven't gone berserk on me.  From what I hear, their mood is unchanged from when you abandoned.  So if your fort was about to collapse from a tantrum spiral, the migrants from that fort will still be in a very bad mood when they arrive in the new fort.

The odd thing in this case is I abandoned the fortress only because it had been a "screw around" fort for testing minecarts, once I'd learned what I wanted I abandoned it, there was definitely no tantrum spiral, and I don't think there had been any deaths except to magma accidents (which leave no evidence). Perhaps the guy went zerky because his deceased mates hadn't been memorialised or something. He didn't arrive berserk, he went berserk the moment he stepped on the map (he also had almost no thoughts at all).
Anyway, as they say, you shouldn't look a gift dwarf in the mouth, battleaxes work much better. I wish ALL my fisherdwarf immigrants would go zerk on arrival.

[weenog]

I've seen the instant berserk thing happen in worlds that had no previous player-run fortresses. Not sure what causes it, but it's a bummer sometimes. "I know my fortress is a shithole, but jeeze..."

[escondida]

Did you maybe abandon in the middle of a strange mood? That would pretty much ensure insanity, since the mood would fail by default.

[Foxite]

Ive seen very gruesome combat reports in my Dwarven Life, but this is by far. The most. Gruesome. Report. Ever.